Gerald Hushlak

The computer has evolved from the traditional tool serving the artist and has found a new identity as a creative partner that “leads” the artist.

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The intent of my camera is to gather digital input as a starting point for inventing new metaphorical subjects birthed through an iterative computer evolutionary breeding process, not unlike the work of Darwin and Mendel. Photographic input is skewed to optimize the software resident on a half dozen computers running 24/7 that breed suites of drawings. Because they inform each other, my preference is to exhibit the drawings in clusters. Within this process of iterative creation, the occasional “wild card hybrid” offers an unimagined departure point for building new vocabularies that “imagineer” new aesthetic and design relationships. Like a stream of water finding its own path after a rainstorm, the hybrids situational journey collides and offers a conversation with the machines predictability.